Water wheel or motor



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s. B. GOEP. WATER WHEEL 0E MOTOR. No. 426,264. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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S. B. GOPF.

WATER WHEEL 0R MOTOR.

Patented Apr.22, 1890.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL B. GOFF, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

WATER WHEEL OR MOTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,264, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed July 8, 1889. Serial No. 316,827. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. GOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVater lVheels or Motors, which improve ment is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to water-wheels; and it consists of a novel construction and arrangement of a main driving-wheel, a governor below the same, and a wheel below the said governor combined for simultaneous operation and as auxiliaries to each other.

Figure 1 represents a sectional side elevation embodying my improvement and showing one of the gates in sectional view. Fig. 2 represents a sectional elevation of the upper wheel. Fig. 3 represents a horizontal section on the line a' a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents a detail elevation of a modified form of a part of my invention.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A, B,and C designate the supports for the shaft D and parts of the wheel, and may be the flooring or beams of an apartment, sluiceway, or other structure. The shaft D is made hollow for the purpose of strength and lightness and has a flanged plate or dished casting E secured to the lower end. thereof. The said plate or casting E has attached thereto a series of antifrietional rollers G, which depend into a recess formed in the support O and bear on a metallic wear-plate F mounted therein. The upper end of the shaft may project any distance above the support A. for the purpose of driving machinery. An opening 14 is formed in the support or flooring B to allow the water to pass therethrough.

A cylindrical shell or casing 6 is fastened on the support 13- and has an opening in the bottom. thereof aligning with the opening 14 and provided with a chute or raceway 13.

The shaft D passes centrally through the said shell and has an arbor 3 attached thereto and connected with the heads of a cylinder 5, concentrically arranged within the shell or casing 6 and provided. with an opening 8. The

arbor 3 is constructed of suitable thin metal and is larger in diameter than the shaft D, and the ends or heads thereof are attached to the said shaft.

Spirally-arrauged vanes 9 are secured to the arbor 3 and the inner surface of the cylinder 5. These blades extend from the bottom to the top of said cylinder and have open ings 22 between their lower ends. A spiral blade 7 is attached to theinner surface of the shell or casing 6, and said casing has a central opening of about the same diameter as the cylinder 5. The said blade 7 is constructed in the form of an inclined plane and in width extends from the outer surface of the cylinder 5 to the shell or casing 6.

An arborl is mounted on the shaft D above the cylinder 5, and at its lower end bears on a flanged collar 4, secured over the arbor 3.

A series of radially-arranged arms 2 are fastened to arbor 1 and their outer ends are constructed with slots 24, in which are located gates 10, having anti-frictional rollers 11 pro jecting from the sides and lower edge thereof. The upper ends of said gates are formed with flanged heads 12 to retain the same in connection with the arms 2. The gates depend into the space or chamber formed between the cylinder 5 and shell or casing 6, and the rollers 11 and their bottom edges rest on the blade 7. The gates rise and fall correspondingly with the grade of the said blade 7 and are held in continual contact therewith by gravity. As shown in Fig. 4, a wheel 2% is keyed to shaftD above the arms2 and gates 10. Said wheel has a series of sheaves 25 secured thereon, over which pass cords 26, attached to the heads 12 of gates 10 and to counterpoise-weights 27. In this instance the antifrictional rollers are dispensed with and the counterpoisc-weights substituted therefor. The weight of each counterpoise is slightly less than that of the gate to which it is attached, and the gates are thereby allowed to move over the inclined blade 7 with a light pressure, and the friction consequently reduced.

A shell or casing 17, open at bottom and top, is secured to the under side of support B and incloses a conical governor or deflector 15, stationarily attached thereto, and through ICO which the shaft D loosely extends. The said governor or deflector has an open bottom and is provided with doors 16, which may be opened or closed by suitable means.

Below the governor or deflector a series of radial arms 18 are secured to the shaft D on a tangential line, and directly below said arms a cylinder 21 is fastened on said shaft. A series of vanes 20 are secured to the cylinder 21 and to an outer shell or casing 19, concentrically surrounding the said cylinder. The vanes 20 are curved and slightly inclined and have openings 23 between their lower ends.

The raceway or chute 13 is arranged to open into the shell 6 at the highest point of the inclined blade '7, and the incoming volume of water strikes the nearest gate 10 and forces it around to the lowest point of said blade in front of the opening 8 in the cylinder 5. The movemen t of the gates 10 is translated through the arms 2 and arbor 1 to the shaft D, thus revolving the latter. The fall of the blade 7 accelerates the force of thewater, which, entering the opening 8 of cylinder 5, rushes up over the now-moving vanes 9 in said cylinder, forcing the same around more rapidly, and thereby increase the speed of the shaft D. The water falls through the openings 22 between vanes 9 onto the governor or deflector 15, and if the doors 16 thereof are closed it strikes the vanes 20 of the lowermost wheel and further increases the speed of said shaft D. When the doors 16 are open, the water flows therethrough and falls on blades 18, to further increase the speed of the shaft, and over the closed top of cylinder 21 and acts upon vanes 20, as before stated. The water falling against vanes 20 escapes through the openings 23 into a suitable Wat-er-Way or sluice. The said operation of the parts becomes continuous, and power thereby imparted to shaft D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A water wheel or motor having a vertical shaft with a support B, a cylindrical casingon said support, the said casing and support having coinciding openings therein, a

cylinder within said casing and having an opening in its side, an inclined plate between said casing and cylinder and below said side openings, at raceway leading into said casing above said plate, arms on said shaft above said cylinder and provided with slots, rising and falling gates in said slots and on said inclined plate, and rollers on said gates, said parts being combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A water wheel or motor having a vertical shaft with supports, a casing on the upper support, a cylinder within the casing, an inclined plate between the casing and cylinder, rotary arms with rising and falling gates, the latter riding on said inclined plate, a casing securedto the under side of the upper support with conical deflector secured thereto, and a cylinder with outer casing, and vanes between the same below said deflector, said part-s being combined substantially as described.

3. A water wheel or motor having a vertical shaft with uppersupport B,'a casing with inclosed cylinder, the latter having an opening in its side, an inclined plate between said cylinder and casing, rotary arms with rising and falling gates, the latter riding on said inclined plate, said support, casing, and cylinder having coinciding openings therein, a conical deflector below said support and openings and having doors therein, and tangential arms on the shaft below the deflector, said parts being combined substantially as described.

4. In a water wheel or motor, avertical shaft with rotary arms in the path of the raceway and above the upper support thereof, a conical deflector below said support, tangential arms on the shaft below the deflector, and a cylinder with outer vanes, and an outer shell below said tangential arms, said deflector having doors, the said parts being combined substantially as described.

SAMUEL B. GOFF. Witnesses:

JOHN A. W EDERsHE'IM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

